Isn’t It Romantic?

PROFILE

Composer

Richard Rodgers

Lyricist

Lorenz Hart

Year Written

1932

About Isn’t It Romantic

“Isn’t It Romantic” was written for the 1932 movie Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. The song has proved to be one of their most popular and has been and still is widely recorded by artists including Chet Baker, Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé, Ella Fitzgerald and The Bill Evans Trio. In his book American Popular Song, Alec Wilder calls “Isn’t It Romantic” a “perfect song.”

Lyrics

Isn’t it romantic
Music in the night
A dream that can be heard

Isn’t it romantic
Moving shadows write the oldest magic word
I hear the breezes playing in the trees up above
While all the world is saying you were meant for love

Isn’t it romantic
merely to be young on such a night as this
Isn’t it romantic
Every note that’s sung is like a lover’s kiss

Sweet symbols in the moonlight
do you think that I will fall in love per chance?
Isn’t it romance?

Isn’t it romantic
On a moonlight night
She’ll cook me onion soup

Kiddies are romantic
and if we don’t fight we soon will have a troupe
We’ll help the population,
it’s a duty that we owe to dear old France
Isn’t it romance?